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Butler, Paul – English Journal, 2011
About 10 years ago, Robert J. Connors's article "The Erasure of the Sentence" questioned the disappearance of writing style and examined the validity of some of the reasons given for its disappearance. Since that 2000 article, the study of style has undergone a kind of renaissance, with numerous books and articles on its uses in composition theory…
Descriptors: Transformational Generative Grammar, Creativity, Sentences, Teacher Role
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Elgin, Suzette Haden – College English, 1978
Describes a series of problems based on transformational grammar which are helpful in teaching students how to write. (DD)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Transformational Generative Grammar, Writing (Composition)
Landwehr, John – 1980
The freshman composition course at Mayville State College (North Dakota) progresses from basic grammar to sentence combining to the development of expository writing skills based on the principles of generative rhetoric. The course begins with a brief review of grammar, emphasizing the phrase, clause, and sentence, and then moves on to the process…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Sentence Combining
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Faigley, Lester L. – College Composition and Communication, 1979
Describes a study which found that generative rhetoric instruction produced a quantitative and qualitative increase in college students' syntactic maturity. (DD)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Generative Grammar, Higher Education, Rhetoric
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Scott, Robert Ian – English Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: English Instruction, Linguistic Theory, Secondary Education, Teaching Methods
Reising, R. W. – Elementary English, 1970
Critically analyzes Paul J. Schafer's advocacy (in Return to Normalcy," Elementary English," vol. 47, no. 5 (May 1970), p. 671--see TE 200 730) of a return to the teaching of traditional grammar. (SW)
Descriptors: English Instruction, Sentence Diagraming, Sentence Structure, Teaching Methods
Pettersson, Ake; Lindell, Ebbe – 1976
This progress report describes a Swedish project which is seeking to develop and test materials for writing practice. Experimental materials focus on the sentence, giving students practice in the formation of more advanced constructions. Emphasis in the control program is on a variety of types of written composition (e.g., narratives,…
Descriptors: Instruction, Secondary Education, Sentence Combining, Sentence Structure
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Christensen, Francis; And Others – College Composition and Communication, 1966
Three authors comment upon each other's views as expressed in previous articles on the paragraph. Francis Christensen discusses the "sentence-based" theory and compares it to other descriptions of the paragraph. A.L. Becker compares Christensen's and Paul Rodgers' views and discusses their major differences in (1) identity and variation in…
Descriptors: Conferences, English, English Instruction, Grammar
O'Hare, Frank – 1973
The purpose of this study was to develop a sentence-combining system for teaching composition to seventh grade students. The exercises were designed so as to be independent of the students' previous knowledge of grammar. Chapter 1 examines recent studies in language and writing. The first part of chapter 2 demonstrates that normal growth in…
Descriptors: English, Grade 7, Grammar, Sentence Combining
Flemming, Donald N. – 1980
Modern linguistic theory offers two main contributions to the improvement of writing: readability and appropriateness. Readability can be developed by improving the correctness of forms used and achieved by carrying out an error analysis on the student's writing to provide insights into errors and clause structure. Linguists have determined that…
Descriptors: College English, Higher Education, Linguistic Theory, Structural Grammar
MOFFETT, JAMES – 1967
DRAMATIC INTERACTION, THE PRIMARY VEHICLE FOR DEVELOPING THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE, IS AN OFTEN UNEXPLOITED METHOD OF ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS. STUDENTS CAN LEARN ABOUT LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND COMPOSITION IN A COHERENT FASHION BY WRITING PLAYS, SHORT STORIES, AND POEMS, OR BY ACTING, INTERPRETING, AND CREATING DRAMA. THE…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Drama, Dramatics, English Instruction
Beissel, George R. – 1976
The detailed method for teaching writing presented in this book consists of a highly structured program of grammar, usage, and composition, using a modified Skinnerian, easy-to-difficult technique. The first part of the book contains five chapters which discuss the problem of teaching writing, reasons for studying grammar, which grammar should be…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Grammar, Kernel Sentences, Program Descriptions
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Ross, Janet – College Composition and Communication, 1971
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Instruction, Educational Research, English Instruction
Lemke, Alan – 1977
Typically, teachers approach ambiguity in student writing by suggesting that students focus on diction, syntax, and writing format; however, the works of modernists (including T.S. Eliot, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Karl Marx, and Pablo Picasso) suggest the importance of conceptions of semantic clarity. Transformational models for syntactic elements in…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Deep Structure, English Instruction, Higher Education
Dupuis, Mary Miles – 1971
This study assesses an analytical process which seeks to describe the writing style of a student in terms of the four basic transformational operations: addition, deletion, combining, and reordering. Application of the process to writing skills of low achievers in English is evaluated. All ninth and eleventh grade students in the Falls Church,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, English, Grade 11, Grade 9
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